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echo: bbs_carnival
to: Sean Dennis
from: Allen Prunty
date: 2016-05-09 00:06:16
subject: Re: Re-release

On May 24, 2011 07:42pm, Sean Dennis wrote to Matt Munson:

 SD> Hello, Matt.

 SD> Tuesday May 24 2011 at 13:59, you wrote to David Collins:

 MM>> But is 32 bit backwards compatable with 64 bit windows?

 SD> A 64-bit Windows system can run 32-bit programs, yes.  I'm not sure
 SD> about 32-bit BBS doors though.  I did write 32-bit BBS doors before but
 SD> I couldn't get anyone to test them for me, so I quit writing them.

You can run 32 bit on a 64 bit system... but older 16 bit doors will not run
on a 64 bit system but sometimes will run on a 32 but.  If they werew written
in Turbo Pascal there's a patch that may or may not slow them down enough to
work properly.

Allen

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